Believed people were born with a Blank Slate- Tabula Rasa and were influenced by Life Experiences
Source: http://www.history.com/topics/john-locke
Source: http://leonardooh.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/locke.jpg
Sunday, December 15, 2013
John Locke
Trained in medicine, he was a key advocate of the empirical approaches of the Scientific Revolution.
Believed people were born with a Blank Slate- Tabula Rasa and were influenced by Life Experiences
Source: http://www.history.com/topics/john-locke
Source: http://leonardooh.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/locke.jpg
Believed people were born with a Blank Slate- Tabula Rasa and were influenced by Life Experiences
Source: http://www.history.com/topics/john-locke
Source: http://leonardooh.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/locke.jpg
Rene Descartes - The First Modern Philosopher
Source: http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Rene_descartes.jpg
William Harvey - Human Circulation System
(Harvey's demonstration on how to apply a tourniquet to a bleeding arm)
-William Harvey, an Englishman, accurately described the circulation of the blood in the human body, confirming findings from earlier scholars such as Ibn Nafis
- He also proved that the blood was pumped by the heart
- His findings of how to proper stop blood flow to an arm, shown above, sparked others interest with the human circulatory system.
-This, with the help of a microscope, led to the discovery blood cells by a Dutch biologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Invention of the Microscope - Galileo
(Galileo's Microscope)
- No one is 100% positive on who made the 1st microscope
- Many people get credit for the invention, one person who is credited is Galileo Galilei
- Galileo created a compound microscope in 1625, he called it the "occhiolino" or "little eye"
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